Institute for Gender and Development Studies

Angelique V. Nixon

Lecturer

"Being in the academic world for me means a certain degree of discomfort. The only way I can be in this space is to be a 'revolutionary intellectual’ (in the spirit of Walter Rodney) and to do battle against the regime of ‘truth’ as Sylvia Wynter says we must. This means I work in the tradition of postcolonial thinkers, women of color writers, feminist scholar-activists, and theorise our own experiences -- (re)write/imagine/make ourselves whole. Thus I am active in the struggle for racial, sexual, gender, class, and environmental justice. Revolutionary work means struggle, but it also means healing and radical self-care and love. It also means taking incredible risks and being a warrior, rooted and guided by spirit and the earth.”

Biography

Dr. Angelique V. Nixon is a writer, artist, teacher, scholar, activist, and poet -- born and raised in The Bahamas. Her research, cultural criticism, and poetry have been published widely. She strives through her activism, writing, and art to disrupt silences, challenge systems of oppression, and carve spaces for resistance and desire. Angelique holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida (2008), where she specialized in Caribbean and African diaspora literatures, Caribbean and postcolonial studies, women’s studies and gender research. She is the recipient of a number of awards including a postdoctoral fellowship in Africana studies at New York University (2009) and a Fulbright Scholar Grant (2014). Her scholarly book Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture was recently published by the University Press of Mississippi Press (2015). Her scholarly book Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture (University Press of Mississippi, 2015) won the Caribbean Studies Association's 2016 Barbara T. Christian Award for Best Book in the Humanities. Her current research areas include feminist praxis and discourse, Caribbean sexualities, sexual labour and social justice movements. She is a Lecturer and Graduate Studies Coordinator at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies.

IGDS Research Team Project: “RDI Work/Life Balance and Ageing in Trinidad: Studying the Productivity and Wellbeing of Working Men and Women.” (Research Design Coordinator & Investigator)
Individual Research Project: Book Project – Working Title: “The Paradox of Difference: Transformative Politics and Sexual Freedom in the Caribbean.” Scholarly Book, In Progress.

Nixon, Angelique V. 2006. “Poem and Tale as Double Helix in Joy Harjo’s A Map to the Next World.” SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literatures 18:1. Reprinted in Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Native American Writers. 2010. New York: Bloom’s Literary Criticism.